The funds are designed to keep police officers on the streets -- either by hiring or retaining them -- during the economic downturn.

In Michigan, departments are getting $34 million in Community Oriented Policing Services funds. Of that, Grand Rapids Police will receive a little more than $2 million, while Belding Police will get $195,000. The Village of Kalkaska will receive more than $210,000, and Evart Police will get $177,000.

The aid, announced by Vice President Joe Biden and Attorney General Eric Holder, is just a fraction of what police departments across the country had hoped to get. For every $1 to be delivered, another $7 in requests will go unanswered under the grant program.

About 7,000 state and local agencies applied for aid under the COPS program that is part of the $787 billion stimulus package passed earlier this year. Of those, only about 1,000 were approved. Each state is entitled to at least $5 million in COPS money.

Biden called paying cops' salaries "a moral obligation."

Under the COPS program, the federal government pays the officers' salary and benefits for three years, after which the local government is responsible for the costs.